Suspect grabs gun, kills officer, himself

By HOLBROOK MOHR AND JEFF AMY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: April 6, 2013 at 5:23 a.m.

The police detective killed while interrogating a murder suspect at department headquarters in Mississippi’s capital city was shot four times before the suspect shot himself in the head, authorities said Friday Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart said Jackson police detective Eric Smith was shot twice in the chest and twice in the arm with a 9mm pistol.